The Pulp Artifact Repository with Bihan Zhang and Austin Macdonald

Episode • Jul 2, 2018 • 30m

Summary

Hosting your own artifact repositories can have a huge impact on the reliability of your production systems. It reduces your reliance on the availability of external services during deployments and ensures that you have access to a consistent set of dependencies with known versions. Many repositories only support one type of package, thereby requiring multiple systems to be maintained, but Pulp is a platform that handles multiple content types and is easily extendable to manage everything you need for running your applications. In this episode maintainers Bihan Zhang and Austin Macdonald explain how the Pulp project works, the exciting new changes coming in version 3, and how you can get it set up to use for your deployments today.

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Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Austin Macdonald and Bihan Zhang about Pulp, a platform for hosting and managing software package repositories

Interview

Introductions
How did you get introduced to Python?
What is Pulp and how did the project get started?
What are the use cases/benefits for hosting your own artifact repository?
What is the high level architecture of the platform?
- Pulp 3 appears to be a fairly substantial change in architecture and design. What will be involved in migrating an existing installation to the new version when it is released?